Self Quotes

“Conscience, what art thou? Thou tremendous power! Who dost inhabit us without our leave.”

“True happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

“My demons are my companions, I get along with them.”

“We are, every one of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.”

“Existentialism is the only philosophy which doesn't put the 'I' on trial.”

“From the bottom of my heart, thank you for freeing me from myself.”

“Be still and know that I am God.”

“The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.”

“Peace that passeth all understanding is your real nature.”

“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

“Why then, O mortals, do you seek happiness outside yourselves, when it lies within?”

“How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, and so close beside.”

“You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

“The It lives us, while we believe we are living.”

“Thinking is simply the reasoning of the individual, the talking of the self to himself.”

“The Kingdom of God is within you.”

“Each one of us is an intelligible world.”

“The sense of self is a social product.”